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Easy Hazelnut Pesto & #GetHimFed 24

Friday, February 28, 2014

This hazelnut pesto is wonderful served with fresh pasta or spread on lightly toasted bread!

Yield 1 cup

Easy Hazelnut Pesto

This hazelnut pesto really is easy to make! It only calls for a handful of ingredients and instead of grinding away all day at it with a mortar and pestle, I just throw everything in a food processor and get on with the rest of the meal.

I had my first taste of pesto in 2008, when I first moved to Manchester. One of my flatmates, a French guy, introduced me to it after I stared in shock as he slathered a heaping tablespoon of grainy green stuff onto a pile of spaghetti. I guess the look on my face gave me away because he asked if I'd ever tried pesto.

Truthfully, I hadn't even heard of it. He twirled some noddles around a fork and dipped it in the pesto before handing it over to me. At first bite, I didn't like it. I didn't know what to expect; I certainly wasn't expecting the grainy texture. Over time (and after having fresh pesto on a pizza in Milan), I've come to love it! It's a perfect alternative when you don't want a heavy, tomato-based pasta sauce and whipping up your own pesto is easy, too.

9 comments:

Good Morning Anyonita, I love pesto and usually make it with pine nuts, so using hazelnuts is is a nut I have never tried..... but I shall remedy this. Next time I am making pesto I will be using hazelnuts.Best wishesDaphne

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Anyonita Nibbles was established in 2010. I’m Anyonita (ann-yo-need-uh), an American expat living in Manchester, the best city in the UK! Since I am coeliac, Anyonita Nibbles focuses on flavourful, gluten-free food. I’m a wife and a mommy & I have an obsession with patisserie.
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